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doubts as to economy under Union, 
991. 
Metcalfe, Sir C. T. (later Lord), 
Governor-General of Canada, 17, 
21. 
Metriesystem of weights and measures, 
1474, 1539, 1540. 
Mexico, treaty of November 27, 
1888, with (adhered to by all 
Australian states save New South 
Wales, Natal, and Newfoundland, 
and binding on Transvaal and 
Orange Free State provinces), 1109, 
1558 n.2; power to retire from, con. 
ceded in 1911, 1623. 
Military defence, Part V, chap. x, § 1, 
and see Table of Contents. 
Mills, Hon. D., Minister of Justice 
in Canada, views as to disallowance 
of Provincial Acts, 741, 742. 
Milner, Lord, proposed censure on, 
by House of Commons (Hansard, 
ser. 4, cxxiv, 464 seq., 1410 seq.), 
178 n. 1. 
Mineral rights in British Columbia 
railway lands not vested in Domi- 
nion Government, 683. 
Minister, called upon to resign office, 
Part IT, chap. vii, and see Table of 
Contents, 1042; without seat in 
Parliament, 241, 305, 306 : can 
speak in either House, 964 n. 3. 
Ministers of Justice, Canada, reports 
of, 734 n. 1. 
Ministerial responsibility, not directly 
secured by law, 304, 305. 
Ministry, in the Union, 955. 
Minto, Earl of, Governor-General of 
Canada (1898-1904), 149. 
Wodus wvivendi, of Transvaal with 
Mozambique, 1901, 945. 1101 : of 
1909, 1101. 
Molteno, Hon. Sir J., K.C.M.G., advo- 
cates responsible government at 
the Cape, 46, 47; Prime Minister 
(1872-8), 290; opposes Lord Car- 
narvon’s federation scheme, 941-3 ; 
dispute with Sir B. Frere, 1258-61. 
Molteno, P. A., M.P., criticism of Sir B. 
Frere, 1260 ; on honours, 1300 n.1. 
Monastic institutions, in Canada, 
1445 n.3. 
Money Bills, powers of nominee 
Houses as to, 555-68. 
Monk, Viscount, efforts in favour 
of federation, 1004 ; first Governor- 
General of Canada (1867-8), 647. 
Monk, Hon. F. D., in 1911 Minister 
of Public Works in Canadian Govern- 
ment, 1619; views on Canadian 
aaval policy, 1297. 1629 n. 1. 
Monroe doctrine, application of, to 
Canada, 1267. 
Montenegro, treaty of 1882 with, 1109. 
Montserrat, alteration of constitution 
of bicameral legislature of, in 1862 
(Act No. 286, one chamber with 
elective majority) and 1866 (No. 350, 
nominee ; see also Act No. 18 of 
1868; 3 of 1901; 2 of 1902; 4 of 
1909), 10, 367; no power of Crown 
to legislate for, 1444 n. 1. 
Moor, Rt. Hon. Sir F., K.C.M.G., 
Premier of Natal, 321; becomes 
a senator in the Union, 958 n. 2. 
Moore, Hon. Sir N. J, K.C.M.G., 
Premier of Western Australia (1906 
-10), Agent-General (1910— }, 308 
325, 
Moray Firth, Act against trawling in 
(cf. 4 Adam, 608; 5Adam,121),378. 
Morgan case, action of Mr. Justice 
Higinbotham in regard to (Morris, 
Memoir, pp. 199, 200), 1405. 
organ, Hon. Sir A., Premier of 
Queensland (1903-6), now President 
of Legislative Council and Lieu- 
tenant-Governor), 325, 
Yorocco, treaty of December 9, 1856, 
with, applies to all Dominions, 
1558 n. 2 ; effect in Canada of crisis 
of 1811 regarding, 1629. 
Morris, Rt. Hon. Sir E., Premier of 
Newfoundland (1909- ), 209-11, 
309, 323; P.C. 1302 n. 3; obtains 
increase in Legislative Council, 
598 ; represents Newfoundland at 
the Imperial Conference of 1911, 
1501 1n.2; views on Imperial 
Parliament of Defence, 1505; on 
Standing Committee of Imperial 
Conference, 1510; on Declaration 
of London, 1516 ; on Imperial Court 
of Appeal, 1529. 
dost favoured nation treaties, 1153, 
1154,1558 n. 2 ; as regards Customs 
Union in South Africa, 1622, 1623. 
Mount Rennie murder case, 1404 n. 4. 
dountstephen, Lord, peerage of. 1304 
n. 1. 
Mowat, Sir 0., G.C.M.G., Premier of 
Ontario, 323; views on executive 
power, 663; his services in the 
maintenance of the federal constitu- 
tion, 776 ; honour for, 1301 n. 1. 
Mozambique, arrangements of Trans- 
vaal with, 945, 1101, 1623. 
Municipal institutions, provincial con- 
trol of, 720. 
Murder, extraterritorial operation of 
law as to, 137, 282, 398. 
Murray, Sir H.. K.C.B.. Governor